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ABC News afiliate KVUE in Austin Interviews Baxtel

KVUE reporter Jenni Lee interviewed Baxtel's founder, Eric Bell, about the growth of the Texas data center market.Watch the KVUE interview

February 07, 2025

Eric Bell

Amazon Signs two PPAs in India

Amazon has signed two Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) in India for a combined 199MW across two onshore wind projects. The first PPA was signed with CleanMax, an Asia-focused renewable developer, for energy from a 100MW onshore wind project currently under development in Koppal, Karnataka.Kulde...

February 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Armada to Deploy Containerized Edge Data Centers in Saudi

Aramco Digital, Armada, and Microsoft this week announced a collaboration to deploy Armada’s satellite-connected Galleon Edge data centers and Commander software platform in Saudi Arabia. These deployments utilize Microsoft Azure's cloud in Armada's Galleon infrastructure; this includes Azure ...

February 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon Signs PPA with ERG in Northern Ireland

Amazon has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Italian energy firm ERG Group as a pay-as-produced agreement in which ERG will supply the cloud giant with Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGOs) produced by the Corlacky wind farm. According to ERG, the PPA will deliver ...

February 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

520-acre Data Center Campus Planned Wisconsin

A data center campus could be coming to Wisconsin as local press reports an unnamed developer is looking to build a campus in Beaver Dam in Dodge County, some 60 miles northwest of Milwaukee. A company working through the Degas LLC affiliate is seeking to invest around $567m developing a data ...

February 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

EnCharge AI Closes $100m Funding Round

AI chip startup EnCharge AI has closed an oversubscribed $100 million Series B funding round led by Tiger Global and saw participation from Samsung Ventures and HH-CTBC. It brings the total amount raised by EnCharge AI to more than $144m. The company said it would use the funds to bring its fi...

February 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon Looks to Develop Another Data Center in Ohio

Amazon is looking to develop another data center in Ohio and met the Marysville City Council to discuss a community reinvestment area agreement. The company intends to develop, construct, and operate “one or more data centers," with documents suggesting up to two buildings will be erected with...

February 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Prologis Plans 10GW Data Center Expansion

Real estate investment trust Prologis plans to substantially increase its data center portfolio over the coming decade. The company began expanding into the data center sector during the Covid 19 pandemic and often partners with Skybox Datacenters for the actual building of the facilities, whi...

February 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Templus acquires bitNAP from Cellnex

Spanish data center firm Templus has acquired Spanish colo bitNAP from Cellnex, including bitNAP’s only data center facility in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona. The facility offers 1.7MW of power across 3,000 sqm (32,291 sq ft), with a PUE of 1.14.“This acquisition not only expands our m...

February 06, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Crusoe and Kalina to Develop Natural Gas Powered AI Data Centers in Canada

Artificial intelligence data center developer Crusoe has entered into a multi-year framework agreement with natural gas-fired power provider Kalina Distributed Power (KDP) to develop multiple colocated AI data centers powered by natural gas power plants in Alberta, Canada.Each potential coloca...

February 06, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Lightpath launches Edge data center unit

US fiber firm Lightpath this week announced it has closed on the acquisition of the majority of assets from United Fiber and Data (UFD), and is launching a modular Edge data center unit, known as LightCube Edge Data Centers.“This route represents a strategic addition to the Lightpath network e...

February 06, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Deserect News Reports on the Stargate Project, Using Baxtel Data

"According to data from Baxtel, Utah currently has 47 data center facilities that occupy over 6.3 million square feet and consume nearly 600 megawatts of power. While the biggest single facility is the National Security Agency’s 1.5 million square-foot data center in Saratoga Springs, Facebook...

February 06, 2025

Nolan Turner

Orange Romania Signs 10-year vPPA with Engie

Orange Romania has signed a ten-year virtual Power Purchase Agreement (vPPA) with Engie Romania, that will cover 40GWh of Orange Romania's annual electricity requirements which will be delivered from one of Engie’s wind farms in Romania.“This long-term partnership will significantly contribute...

February 05, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Alibaba Cloud Launches Mexico Cloud Region

Chinese cloud company Alibaba Cloud has launched its first Mexican cloud region located in Querétaro with one availability zone. The new region brings Alibaba's total network to 87 availability zones across 29 regions. Details about the data center hosting the region have not been shared.“The ...

February 05, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

ProPublica quotes Baxtel

ProPublica used Baxtel’s data in its recent report examining Washington Governor Bob Ferguson’s order to study the impact of data centers on the state’s energy use, tax revenue, and job creation, amid growing concerns about their electricity consumption and tax incentives. Read mor...

February 05, 2025

Eric Bell

CommBank Signs Five- year Deal with AWS

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is extending its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and has signed a five-year agreement with AWS that will see the company remain the bank's preferred cloud provider.The bank is using AWS' cloud and AI service to develop its CommBiz Gen AI-powered me...

February 05, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Prometheus Hyperscale Hires Liquid Cooling Expert John Gross as CTO

Prometheus Hyperscale has appointed liquid cooling expert John Gross as CTO. Gross has been with the firm for the last four years as lead engineering consultant. In his new role he will lead the Prometheus engineering team and “leverage his extensive experience in designing and commissioning i...

February 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DataBank Raises $250 Million from TJC

DataBank, a data center colocation, interconnection, and managed services company, has raised $250 million from TJC (formerly The Jordan Company). This incestment fund came from excess interest in the company's $2 billion round last October. The operator has raised nearly $5bn in debt and equi...

February 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Oracle Database@Google Cloud adds Eight Regions

Oracle is expanding the availability of its multi-cloud offering, Oracle Database@Google Cloud to include eight new regions and will be introducing new capabilities to the offering.Over the next 12 months, Oracle Database@Google Cloud will be available in the US Central 1 (Iowa), North America...

February 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Top Data Center News from January 27th - 31st 2025

This week, Amazon secured two solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in Japan.The first deal is a 20-year PPA with EDP Renewables APAC, a subsidiary of EDP-Energias de Portugal and the second deal is another 20-year PPA with X-Elio in Japan for the full capacity of the 14MW Funaki solar plant....

February 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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